Statement from USADA CEO, Travis T. Tygart, on Russian cyber-espionage group http://www. usada.org/statement-usad a-ceo-travis-t-tygart-russian-cyber-espionage-group/ "
Again, who is behind the Powell hack is not clear, as with the WADA and DNC cases. It could be any number of citizen-anarchist groups who feel they are doing a public service by exposing corruption and double standards.
What is telling is the alacrity of Western politicians, organizations and media to finger Russia over alleged hacking scandals.
On Powell, the Washington Post reports: "In what seems [sic] to be a Russian push to embarrass the US body politic, a website posted emails from the retired statesman that call Donald Trump a "disgrace" and Hillary Clinton "greedy."
The degeneration of the US body politic is the central issue here. However, the ignominy is shunted out of focus with outlandish claims against Russia. This process of denial will only mean an even more withering day of reckoning when the US media runs out of scapegoats by which to distract citizens from scrutinizing the internal collapse.
WADA revelations are a classic case of double standards and denial. The 2016 Olympic Games were sabotaged out of duplicity and political scheming against Russia. The emerging files on Western athletes having been given "exemptions" for use of banned substances demonstrates this duplicity.
Whoever is behind the leaked WADA files is doing a duty for truth-telling and genuine public debate about supposed standards and adherence to drug prohibitions in sports.
That is the perspective that should prevail, as in the case of the Democratic party's stitching up of voters' choice in the US presidential elections. Or in the case of Colin Powell's purported debunking of both candidates.
The focus should be on the message, that is, the content -- not on the supposed messenger, who is being shot down by those implicated in wrongdoing. Smearing Russia as the messenger only shows how desperate the wrongdoers are.
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